Ch 2 Suffixes + Combining Forms Flashcards
Append/o
Appendix
-ectomy
Surgical removal
Spondyl/o, vertebr/o
Spine
Chir/o
Hand
-er, -ist
One who
-iatrician
Practitioner
-logist
One who studies; specialist
-iatricts, -iatry
Medical profession or treatment
cardi/o
Heart
Crin/o
To secrete
Dermat/o
Skin
Esthesi/o
Feeling or sensation
Gastr/o, enter/o
Stomach, intestines
Ger/a, ger/o, geront/o
Elderly
Gynec/o
Female
Immun/o
Immune
Ne/o, nat/o
New, birth
Neur/o
Nerve
Obstetr/o
Midwife
Onc/o
Tumor
Ophthalm/o
Eye
Orth/o, ped/o
Straight, child
Ot/o, laryng/o
Ear, larynx
Path/o
Disease
Ped/o
Child/foot
Radi/o
Radiation or radius
Rheumat/o
Rheumatism
Ur/o
Urinary tract or urine
Melan/o
Black
Oma
Tumor
-centesis
Surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid
-ectomy
Excision (surgical removal or cutting out)
-lysis
Process of loosening, freeing, or destroying
-pexy
Surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)
-plasty
Surgical repair
-rrhaphy
Suture(uniting a wound by stitches)
-scopy
Visual exam w/ a lighted instrument
-stomy
Formation of an opening
-tome
An instrument used for cutting
-tomy
Incision (cutting into tissue)